Regeneration - Regeneration Trilogy vol 1

Informationen zum Autor Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road . The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series. Klappentext Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her latest novel is The Silence of the Girls . Zusammenfassung Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight.

Product details

• Authors: Pat Barker
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780141030937
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103093-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Regeneration; Regeneration-Triology; Regeneration; Regeneration-Triology
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); England, FICTION / Historical / General, First World War fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), War, combat and military adventure fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)